Random fact: an octopus runs on three hearts

Here’s a quick bit of trivia for your next standup icebreaker: octopuses have three hearts. Two move blood past the gills, and the third pushes oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. When an octopus swims, that main heart actually pauses — which is why they prefer to crawl.

Why it’s interesting for us:

• Systems split responsibilities. Like the paired branch hearts, our pipelines do best when focused on a single hop instead of carrying everything end-to-end.
• Context switches are expensive. Swimming pauses the main heart; in ops, bursts of context switching can stall throughput just as easily.
• Adaptation beats raw power. Octopuses thrive because they can re-route, squeeze through constraints, and regenerate. Good automation should behave the same way.

If you want more odd-but-useful facts (and how we map them to AI agents), drop your favorite animal trivia in the inbox. We’ll keep collecting the fun ones.